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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2003
Helmuth Eggers, Ulm, DE;
Gerhard Kurz, Wendlingen, DE;
Juergen Seekircher, Ostfildern, DE;
Thomas Wohlgemuth, Aichtal, DE;
Helmuth Eggers, Ulm, DE;
Gerhard Kurz, Wendlingen, DE;
Juergen Seekircher, Ostfildern, DE;
Thomas Wohlgemuth, Aichtal, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The invention concerns an automobile display unit, an automobile infrared night vision device and an automobile with such a display unit or, as the case may be, with such an infrared night vision device. The display includes an image processing unit which processes the image data supplied to it such that contiguous areas of maximal light intensity are recognized and these image data are adapted to the extent that they are at least partially replaced by image data with reduced light intensity values. These changed image data are supplied to the display, which reproduces these image data. This display unit makes possible a reduction or a prevention of blinding by brilliant light, which is particularly disturbing in a case of display of infrared night vision image information.